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Author Alnes, Jacqueline, 1991- author.

Title The fruit cure : the story of extreme wellness turned sour / Jacqueline Alnes.

Publication Info. Brooklyn : Melville House Publishing, 2024.
2 holds on first copy returned of 7 copies

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - New Materials  613.2 ALNES    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - New Materials  B ALNES, JACQUELINE    DUE 04-02-24
 Manchester, Main Library - New Materials  B ALNES, JACQUELINE    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult New Nonfiction  613.0424 ALNES    DUE 04-11-24
 Plainville Public Library - New Materials  613.25 ALN    DUE 04-20-24
 Portland Public Library - New Materials  613.2 ALN    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Wilson Branch - New Materials  B-ALNES, J.    Check Shelf
Description 307 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents The first fall -- Edenburg -- "Well developed female in no acute distress" -- Fleshless, bloodless, and poison-free -- I shall be healed -- Guinea pigs, gurus, and people in pain -- Sick -- Testify -- Finding the fruit -- Banana Island -- The fruitionist -- Salvation, starvation -- Rebuke the unclean spirit -- Pints of milk and boiled potatoes (Fruit yourself! Root yourself!) -- The serpent tricked me -- A different kind of garden -- How to heal.
Summary "Jacqueline Alnes was a Division One runner during her freshman year of college, but her season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms. What started with a cough, escalated to Alnes collapsing on the track and experiencing months of unremembered episodes that stole her ability to walk and speak. Two years after quitting the team to heal, Alnes's symptoms returned with a severity that left her using a wheelchair for a period of months. She was admitted to an epilepsy center but doctors could not figure out the root cause of her symptoms. Desperate for answers, she turned to an online community centered around a strict, all-fruit diet which its adherents claimed could cure conditions like depression, eating disorders, addiction, anxiety, and vision problems. Alnes wasn't alone. From all over the world, people in pain, doubted or dismissed by medical authorities, or seeking a miracle diet that would relieve them of white, Western expectations placed on their figures, turned to fruit in hopes of releasing themselves from the perceived failings of their bodies"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-307).
Subject Alnes, Jacqueline, 1991-
Women runners -- Biography.
Eating disorders -- Patients -- Biography.
Fruit in human nutrition.
Raw food diet.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Other Editions: Reproduction of (manifestation): Alnes, Jacqueline, 1991- Fruit cure Cammeray, NSW : Simon & Schuster (Australia), 2023 9781761423703
ISBN 9781685890759 (hardcover)
168589075X (hardcover)
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